Next Management Training Events and Conferences: Our Calendar

Explore the newest management thinking and concepts learn from world-renowned leaders and share insights and experiences with your peers at AMA conferences, forums, briefings, Webcasts and special events. AMA special events ensure that you're continually in tune with the latest management trends and issues.

Explore the skills required to channel the power and potential of a diverse workforce for the benefit of the organization, teams, workgroups, individual employees, customers, suppliers, and the communities we serve.

Do you clam up when speaking with senior managers and other people you perceive as more powerful than you? Does your mind go blank, mouth go dry, and your eye contact waver? In this webinar, you’ll learn to speak with confidence regardless of the situation. You’ll discover specific tactics to get grounded and present yourself naturally yet assertively, using both verbal and nonverbal techniques.

When most people develop a presentation they typically use standard templates, include too many slides, or build presentations around visual aids that are word-heavy or excessively complex. In this practical webinar, you’ll learn how to use visuals to boost your ability to get your message heard and understand why less really is more.

Being resilient is especially important in today's topsy-turvy world where everyone is worn down, uncertain about the future, reactive and short tempered. This webinar is filled with specific, practical frameworks and tools to boost your mental toughness when facing fast-paced, difficult, ever-changing, and ambiguous situations.

Excel contains hundreds of built-in functions that most of us don’t even know exist. This Webinar explores a significant number of these analytical tools, showing you how to quickly tackle a myriad of statistical, mathematical, and financial challenges.

The first goal in business writing is clarity, creating documents that deliver a clear message. But second to that—and equally important—is presenting a strong professional image. This webinar shows you how to troubleshoot punctuation, grammar, and other foibles to ensure all your letters, memos, emails, and reports are mistake-free and built to impress.

This webinar demonstrates how to format and extract key insights from your Excel data and then design effective charts and graphs to help you tell a great story. Your instructor will show you exactly what steps to take and you’ll have access to a recorded version of the program to refer back to as you develop future presentations and further refine your skills.

This webinar provides you with specific strategies and tactics for working across the generations, increasing engagement and productivity, and hiring people who fit in today’s collaborative team-driven environments.

Learn how to use Outlook to take control of your emails, organize your work schedule, and improve the way you share and communicate with others. This webinar gives you a wealth of how-tos, shortcuts, and tactics to improve your productivity and sanity at work.

If you’ve ever wondered what sets successful managers apart from those who are known as the “bad boss,” take advantage of this introduction to the specific skills and know-how that can make your career soar.

To combat negative attitudes, you need to be able to proactively inoculate your team against its dangers by creating the right type of workplace norms and climate. In this webinar you’ll get tactics and techniques to lead individuals or teams out of negative cycles and create positive, cultures of personal accountability.

The underpinnings of effective contemporary leadership are hopefulness when facing challenges and the capacity to quickly come back from failures. Optimism and resilience are critical to collaboration, team effectiveness and a “fail fast and pivot” organizational mindset. Yet, sometimes the subtle gender stereotypes that can be applied to women leaders restrict or misinterpret the use of optimism as naïve, and resilience as merely being cheery. In this session we will identify how we can possess and use optimism and resilience in multiple settings with a coherent professional leader demeanor.

This practical webinar gives you step-by-step advice for developing a set of management skills that will guide you to success. You’ll gain tips and advice for managing employees, organizing a productive team, and delivering results. This program is a great opportunity to learn steps you can take immediately to get your management career off on the right foot.

Emotional intelligence (EI) is your ability to understand and manage your emotions as well as those of the people around you. During this preview, you'll discover a number of specific EI leadership skills.

Any person who attends a meeting may be asked to take notes and create the meeting minutes. And taking meeting minutes is one task that you are rarely formally trained to do, yet are expected to pick up right away. This webinar helps you by revealing shortcuts and key steps for getting prepared before the meeting, taking notes during the meeting, and completing the job by distributing a report after the meeting.

This engaging, interactive webinar gives you deeper insights and practical tips that will embolden your writing style. Through case studies and exercises, you will learn how to write with tact and authority in every medium.

The role of leader hinges on the ability to share a vision, set of goals, strategy and set of attitudes that will gain others’ support and action. In short, it demands that women leaders use powerful communication tools to assertively motivate, inspire, and influence. Whether moving others to action, followership, collaboration, or change, our communication is pivotal to high-level teamwork, results, innovation and creative problem solving. In this webinar we will identify the skills needed to use communication power in today’s organizations and how those skills translate into practical action.